Both Uses of
wary
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The track workers, the switchmen, the yardmen, who had always greeted her, anywhere along the line, their cheerful grins boasting that they knew who she was-had now looked at her stonily, turning away, their faces wary and closed.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- -and saw one wary eye, the other hidden by a lock of hair, and the face of a wild creature who has forgotten the sound of human voices, but listens as to a distant echo, with suspicion, yet almost with hope.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
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(wary) careful or nervous about something